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VISIT BY MR LUCE TO CENERAL ASSE CLY

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1. WHEN THE PROSPECTIVE NORWEGIAN CHAIRMAN OFLINE F185) COMMITTEE RAISED WITH HE HIS IDEA OF CUTTING SHORT THE GENERAL

DEBATE I POINTED OUT TO HIM THAT THIS COULD CAUSE DIFFICULTIES

FOR US BECAUSE THE MAIN UK SPEECH WAS MADE BY A MINISTER WHO CAME FROM LONDON FOR THE PURPOSE. VRAALSEN REPLIED

EMPHATICALLY THAT ANY RESTRICTION ON THE GENERAL DEBATE WOULD

ONLY BE A CUIDELINE AND WOULD CERTAINLY NOT APPLY TO MINISTERS AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED VISITORS FROM CAPITALS, WHO WOULD SE WELCOME TO SPEAK WHENEVER THEY WISHED.

2. SEEN FROM HERE, A SPEECH IN THE SECOND WEEK WOULD BE BETTER THAN THE FIRST. LAST YEAR MR HURD SPOKE ON THE DAY

DEVOTED TO THE CELEBRATION OF DISARMAMENT WEEK, AFTER THE

CONCLUSION OF THE SET SPEECHES. IT MIGHT GIVE MORE FLEXIBILITY

TO CHOOSE A DAY LATER THAT WEEK. IT WOULD ALSO BE EASIER IN

THE SECOND WEEK FOR MR LUCE TO MEET REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE

COMMITTEE ON DISARMAMENT IF HE WISHED TO DO SO.

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